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I don't make a lot of mistakes, because it's hard for me to be wrong

Johan Cruijff

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Without the ball, you can't win.
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I'm not religious. In Spain all 22 players make the sign of the cross before they enter the pitch. If it works all matches must therefore end in a draw.
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The most difficult thing about an easy match is to make a weak opponent play bad football.
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The hardest thing about an easy match is making a weak opponent play poor. A poor player isn't poor because he tends to kick the ball in his own goal. It's because when you put intense pressure on him, he loses control. So you have to increase the tempo of the game and he'll automatically give the ball away.
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You know I don't think there will ever be a time when the English player is not respected, and feared, across the world of football. The English footballer is very brave and strong and committed and there is always enough high-class players in his team to cause concern in any opponent. It is a national characteristic.
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When you're playing against a team that has two great central defenders, the best option is to play without a striker.
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Speed is often confused with insight. When I start running earlier than the others, I appear faster.
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Football is about having the best offensive play possible. I always like to play offensive football, and nobody will convince me otherwise.
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I can be a new Di Stefano, but I can't be a new Pelé. He is the one that goes beyond the limits of logic.
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There are very few players who know what to do when they're not marked. So sometimes you tell a player: that attacker is very good, but don't mark him.
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Sometimes something's got to happen before something is going to happen.
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Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins.
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Surviving the first round is never my aim. Ideally, I'd be in one group with Brazil, Argentina and Germany. Then I'd have lost two rivals after the first round. That's how I think. Idealisitic.
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I always threw the ball in, because then if I got the ball back, I was the only player unmarked.
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If my forward arrives in a one vs one situation, I always say: 'let him work it out.' Then my players say: But we can help him!'. My reply is: First, there's a good chance you'll only run in his way, and as a second attacker you're drawing a second defender with you, and two vs two is harder than one vs one.'
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Football is simple, you're either on time, or you're too late. If you're too late then you have to leave earlier.
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I still have a lot of room for improvement.
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When you play a match, it is statistically proven that players actually have the ball 3 minutes on average ... So, the most important thing is: what do you do during those 87 minutes when you do not have the ball. That is what determines wether you're a good player or not.
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Playing against 10 is harder than playing against 11 players. You know why? The team with 11 will think ok, we can take it easy now, while the team with 10 will think We really have to work hard now.
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In my teams, the goalie is the first attacker, and the striker the first defender.
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